American Indian Wilderness School
Nederland, Colorado
To support a 6-week pilot program for Native children offering wilderness experience, environmental education, wellness education and traditional ecological knowledge. This program offers children the opportunity to work on developing and utilizing Indigenous thinking.

Black Mesa Permaculture Center/Homes With Dignity
Navajo Reservation, Arizona
To build skills and knowledge in sustainable and traditional housing construction, particularly among women and youth, and construct a model straw bale Hogan on the Dine reservation.

Buffalo Nations, Tatanka Oyate
Rapid City, South Dakota
For direct work with tribes and grassroots Native communities in creating a response to the National Park Service Environmental Impact Statement for the future management of Yellowstone buffalo. Buffalo Nations is playing a lead role in organizing tribal governments to demand more meaningful and effective consultation between the tribes and the U.S. government on the issue. They are working to stop the slaughter of Yellowstone buffalo by creating a better management system for the heard.

Concerned Rosebud Area Citizens
Rosebud Sioux Reservation, South Dakota
For reservation based organizing work to stop the siting of largest hog farm in the world on 4,000 acres of Rosebud tribal land in Mellette County, South Dakota.The hog farm would endanger a historic trail, referred to as the "Ghost Dance Trail," as well as plants, medicines, possible gravesites and the environment.

Elaine M. Stately Peacemaker Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
To support a half day environmental justice workshop focusing on the regional issues of forestry, sacred sites, mining and treaty rights at this organization's annual Youth and Elders Gathering. The Center works to bring and maintain peace in the neighborhoods where American Indian families live by focusing on the cultural, spiritual and educational needs of youth and by strengthening cultural identity through leadership training.

Great Lakes Indian Basket and Quill Boxmakers Association
White Earth, Minnesota
For a member of the Minnesota Basket and Quill Box Makers to attend the California Indian Basket Weavers Association Conference to build common ground environmental strategies in relation to forest and wild lands preservation. The project seeks to preserve and promote traditional basket and box making. The group links artisans and activists together to build common ground environmental strategies in relation to forest and wild lands preservation in order to protect the ecosystems where they harvest their materials.

Metis Heritage and Horticulture Society
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
For two staff members to attend the Seed Savers Conference in Iowa to gain and share knowledge of ancient indigenous seed varieties. This Anishinaabeg group is working to preserve traditional agriculture and indigenous plants of cultural, medicinal and ecological significance.

Native Action
Lame Deer, Montana
To convene a host of Native groups and coordinate a Buffalo Strategy Meeting in Billings, Montana around the Environmental Impact Statement on the future management of Yellowstone buffalo. Native Action offers a model for reservation empowerment and is successfully setting national precedents on environmental justice, economic development, and social justice issues. Like much of eastern Montana, the Northern Cheyenne Reservation is underlain by coal fields and as a result, the community has had to fight a pitched battle over three decades to protect their ancestral homeland from the devastating impacts of strip mining.

Native Arts Circle
Minneapolis, Minnesota
To support World Peace and Prayer Day. Through prayer, indigenous teachings and sharing hope, World Peace and Prayer Day created an international dialogue on the importance of human beings' responsibility to the natural world. Organizing involved educational efforts to relate traditional prophesies and teaching to present environmental issues. The Mission of Native Arts Circle is to educate about Native arts and culture in Minnesota while building a support system for Native artists.

National Commission for Democracy in Mexico
Los Angeles, California
To provide a scholarship for a Native participant in a delegation to Chiapas, Mexico to bridge indigenous issues and movements continentally and develop first-hand knowledge of the Zapatista's work for autonomy, justice and sustainable community development.

Slim Butte Land Use Association
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
This seed grant to Slim Butte, a land use cooperative of community members on the Pine Ridge Reservation, will support an innovative pilot project to research and develop industrial hemp agriculture. This project is emerging as a critical initiative in reservation based sustainable community development options. This work is a response to the Oglala Tribal Council's decision to allow the growing of industrial hemp on the reservation. In addition, the Association plants and helps maintain over three hundred extended family community gardens on the reservation.

White Earth Land Recovery Project
White Earth Reservation, Minnesota
More than 90% of the land on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota is held by non-tribal interests, much of it lost through fraud at the turn of the century. The Recovery Project is focused on rebuilding the land base and traditional sustainable economies of the Anishinabe people of White Earth Their environmental justice initiatives include alternative energy work and training, work to preserve wild rice in the face of globalization and threats of genetic pollution, and economic and anti-racism organizing.